Lewis Baltz: Candlestick Point [SIGNED]

BALTZ, Lewis, BLAISDELL, Gus

ISBN 10: 4906265502 / ISBN 13: 9784906265503

Published by Gallery Min / Min J. Shirota, Tokyo, 1989

About this Item

First edition, first printing. Signed in pencil on the first page by Baltz. Hardcover. Black faux leather-covered boards with matte gray tipped-in title plate on cover and printed in gray on spine, no dust jacket as issued; contained in a black cardboard slipcase with matte gray title plate on front and spine. Photographs by Lewis Baltz. Essay (in English and Japanese) by Gus Blaisdell. Designed by Hiroshi Osaka. Unpaginated (136 pp., including 8 two-page gatefolds), with 12 four-color and 72 duotone plates beautifully printed on heavy matte paper by Mitsumura Printing Company, Ltd., Japan. 10-1/2 x 13-1/2 inches. Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Lewis Baltz: Candlestick Point" at Gallery Min, Tokyo (May 12 -- July 2, 1989). Out of print. Scarce. Near Fine (bumps to the lower right corner of boards; crimping of page edges; minor shelf wear) in Near Fine slipcase (small bumps to top and bottom; minor shelf wear and 2 areas where surface of paper may have been removed by tape or stickers, revealing the matte black paper layer beneath). A continuation of Baltz's "New Topographics" investigation of the industrial wasteland at San Francisco's Candlestick Point. In wide-angle and close-up views, Baltz lays bare what we'd rather not see, while at the same time luring the viewer with the perverse pleasures of his images, here echoed by the sensuous pleasure of the book itself. Signed by Author.

Seller Inventory # 102174

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lewis Baltz: Candlestick Point [SIGNED]
• Publisher: Gallery Min / Min J. Shirota, Tokyo
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 4906265502
• ISBN 13: 9784906265503
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket as issued
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Landscape (Altered)
  • New Topographics
  • Image/Text
  • Los Angeles/California
  • Typologies

About this title

Synopsis

Book by Baltz, Lewis

About the Author

Lewis Baltz's works have been the subject of over fifty one person exhibitions. Seventeen monographs have been published on his work. He came to prominence as a part of the 'New Topography' movement of the 1970s. Baltz studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and received a Master of Fine Arts from Claremont Graduate School in 1971. He is currently based in Paris and Venice.